Quotes About Sacrifice

We live far away from our families and everything else that other people hold dear, and we follow a charismatic leader." "So now you're comparing Orlando to Jesus Christ?

I let him go, without a word about any other meeting, though he was the one thing I wanted to keep: I wanted him in my bed all night, asleep on my pillow, and I might have had him, but I said nothing.

From the beginning, bread was shared around a table—a table of working together, a table of living together, a table of vulnerability, a table of sacrifice, a table of thanksgiving. God set this table for the Israelites in the wilderness so they remember their deliverance. Christ set this table for the disciples in the upper room so we remember his sacrifice.

In a desire to help, I cleaned and tossed the leftovers for the first few days. Then I became curious, for it seemed as if the bread had been left purposely to linger on the tables. "Because it's holy," Mama Vered explained. "We offer it to the poor, and if they do not take it, we feed the birds and fish, but we never throw bread away.

War is a sinkhole that sucks money and men into it and is never filled.

As the Prussian Minister of War, General Erich von Falkenhayn, said on August 4 as the war became a general one: "Even if we will perish, it was nice."10

La moda, la comida, la diversión, los viajes, todo se regulaba en aras del esfuerzo de guerra.

Mis dos abuelos estuvieron en la Primera Guerra Mundial, como médicos; el galés con el Ejército Indio en Galípoli y en Mesopotamia, y el canadiense en el frente occidental. Mi padre y mis cuatro tíos combatieron en la Segunda Guerra Mundial.

My grandmother wanted me to have an education, so she kept me out of school.

Yes, I want money more than anything else in the world." "Then you've made the only choice. But there's a penalty attached, as there is to most things you want. It's loneliness.

She [Melanie] is the only dream I ever had that lived and breathed and did not die in the face of reality.

Scarlett's mind went back through the years to the still hot noon at Tara when grey smoke curled above a blue-clad body and Melanie stood at the top of the stairs with Charles' sabre in her hand. Scarlett remembered that she had thought at the time: 'How silly! Melly couldn't even heft that sword!' But now she knew that had the necessity arisen, Melanie would have charged down those stairs and killed the Yankee - or been killed herself.

Then you've made the only choice. But there's a penalty attached, as there is to most things you want. It's loneliness.

what will the South be like without all our fine boys? What would the South have been if they had lived?

I love you...I've always loved you. I've never loved anybody else. I just married Charlie to - to try to hurt you. Oh, Ashley, I love you so much I'd walk every step of the way to Virginia just to be near you! And I'd cook for you and polish your boots and groom your horse - Ashley, say you love me! I'll live on it for the rest of my life!

I wonder if they know they are fighting for a cause that was lost the minute the first shot as fired.

You're Ma's own blood son, but did she take on that time Tony Fontaine shot you in the leg? No, she just sent for old Doc Fontaine to dress it and asked the doctor what ailed Tony's aim. Said she guessed the licker was spoiling his marksmanship.

war was not glory but dirt and misery.

Mr. Lincoln, the merciful and just, who cries large tears over Mrs. Bixby's five boys, hasn't any tears to shed about the thousands of Yankees dying at Andersonville, said Rhett, his mouth twisting. He doesn't care if they all die. The order is out. No exchanges.

To die for ones country, is to live forever.

He thinks the war is all wrong but he's willing to fight and die anyway, and that takes lots more courage than fighting for something you think is right.

He said nothing in the world was worth what this war was going to do to us. He said there wasn't anything at all to glory—it was just misery and dirt.

And I'm not ashamed that he thinks that way. He thinks the war is all wrong but he's willing to fight and die anyway, and that takes lots more courage than fighting for something you think is right.

in his finger, and the woman muffled the moans of childbirth, lest she disturb him.